Verizon Releases Blatantly Incorrect Net Neutrality Video

Verizon's Net Neutrality Video Is Gross, Blatant, Absurd Propaganda

This may be the age of "alternative facts," but Verizon’s stirring attempt to deny it wants to kill net neutrality has raised the propaganda bar.

In a video released Friday called "Where we stand on net neutrality," Verizon general counsel Craig Silliman manages an epic three minutes of saying the exact opposite of the truth in a performance that even Donald Trump himself would be proud of.

Over the last few years nobody has opposed net neutrality as frequently or vocally as Verizon. In fact, they’ve spent a fair amount of time in court battling against the principle that Internet Service Providers (ISP) and governments must treat all internet data equally.

It seems that net neutrality’s days are numbered as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is ready to rip up net neutrality rules, but Verizon is now trying to insist that isn’t the case and, even if it were, it wouldn’t be celebrating.

In the much-maligned video which has five likes and over 1,000 dislikes on YouTube, Silliman declares that: “The FCC is not talking about killing the net neutrality rules, and in fact not we nor any other ISP are asking them to kill the open Internet rules.”

It’s a baffling statement from a man whose company have filed repeated lawsuits challenging the FCC’s authority to impose net neutrality, or open Internet, rules.

But it doesn’t stop there, Silliman goes so far as to claim that Verizon "fully supports the net neutrality rules" (despite voicing no opposition when Congress voted to allow ISPs to sell their customers' browsing history) and then throws in a series of bizarre and clearly nonsensical analogies.

“Imagine that in your town someone says ‘I’m really concerned that homeowners may start prohibiting people walking up their front walk. So the mailman can’t deliver mail, Girl Scouts can’t sell cookies. It’ll be chaos.” Yes, Silliman genuinely says that and no, I don’t understand how that relates to net neutrality either.

Verizon had the common sense to disable comments on their YouTube video but the general response from the American public has been a baffled and angry "WTF?"

We can only presume that when the FCC does finally kill net neutrality, Verizon will be leading the campaign to get them reinstated, right Craig Silliman?